Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1910 — COMMITS SUICIDE AT NIAGARA FALLS [ARTICLE]

COMMITS SUICIDE AT NIAGARA FALLS

Miss Beatrice Snyder Leaps Into Prospect Point LEAVES NOTE TO HER PARENTS Visited Minister With Mother Bhortly Before Bhe Took Her Fatal Plunge—Dashed to Death— Reasons Unknown. Niagara Falls, N. Y„ Feb. B.—Miss Beatrice R. Snyder of Buffalo, committed suicide by going bver the American falls Monday. She entered the river about fifty feet back from Prospect Point, at the end of the railing. Witnesses say she hesitated a moment and then threw herself on the current, which the next instant swept her over the brink. On the bank she left a handbag, handkerchief and a note which reads: "Dear Mamma and Papa—May you both forgive me for bringing this awful disgrace upon you In these years of your life. Also may our Heavenly Father forgive all my sins. But I have always been very good, thank God. You will find a slip fpr the money under your dresser scarf. With my heart full of all the kindness and tender love. With love to all. Goodbye. Lovingly, , BEATRICE." In her purse was a communicant’s card, signed by Dr. E. H. Dickinson, pastor of the North Presbyterian church of Buffalo. The minister stated that Miss Snyder and her mother were In his study shortly after noon Monday and that after they left his study they went out in the street, where Mies Synder left her daughter, who was supposed to go to work In a store where she was employed.